Revealing God’s Will: Spiritual Maturity – Living in Righteousness

God’s Perfect Will: Crowned in Righteousness and Hidden Wisdom

There is a stage in spiritual growth where the striving quiets and the soul becomes still, not because the journey has ended, but because you’ve stepped into the rhythm of God’s perfect will. This is where spiritual maturity bears kingdom fruit. The doctrines you once studied now live in you. Righteousness steadies your step, identity anchors your heart, and from that deep place, you walk in hidden wisdom and quiet power of God’s will.

As John put it, “I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning.” (1 John 2:13)

From War to Stillness: A Shift in Posture

There comes a holy hush after the battlefield. You’ve spent years learning to wield truth like a sword—cutting through lies, resisting accusation, fighting to hold onto your identity. But now? Now the war quiets, not because the enemy has disappeared, but because you’ve learned where you’re seated.

You’re no longer standing to fight – you’re seated to reign.

This is the shift in posture that defines spiritual maturity. You’ve moved from doing to being, from proving your place in God’s house to inhabiting it with quiet confidence. Your life becomes less about outward momentum and more about inward abiding. You come to know by experience Paul’s statement:

“And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.” (Ephesians 2:6)

You’re not waiting for heaven. You’re already there – positionally, spiritually, and relationally. This is what it means to enter God’s rest.
Not inactivity, but stability. Not withdrawal, but deep-rootedness.

“For those of us who believe, faith activates the promise and we experience the realm of confident rest! …” (Hebrews 4:3 )

The striving that once marked your prayers now gives way to stillness. You no longer cry out for God to come down. You’ve realized—He already has. And now, He’s invited you to sit with Him. Right there. In the throne room.

You’ve gone from standing on promises to being seated in Christ.

This isn’t a downgrade in warfare, it’s the upgrade: where your greatest weapon is rest, your power is peace, and your authority is righteousness.

The Crown of Righteousness: The Seventh Doctrine

Not all doctrines weigh the same. Some build. Some break ground. But one, righteousness, binds them all together.

You’ve been through the six foundations. They formed the floor beneath your feet: repentance, faith, baptisms, laying on of hands, resurrection, and eternal judgment. But righteousness? Righteousness is what happens when those truths shape your life and establish your position.

This is what the spiritually mature know:
Righteousness is not behaviour. It’s identity.
It’s not something you strive to maintain. It’s the ground beneath your feet.

Paul says, “For God made the only one who did not know sin to become sin for us, so that we who did not know righteousness might become the righteousness of God through our union with him.” (2 Corinthians 5:21)

In the early stages, righteousness might feel like something God gives when you’re good and takes when you’re not. Not true, but you’re still learning truth. But here, you know better. You know that Christ’s righteousness is not a robe you wear but who you are. It can’t be peeled off by failure. It doesn’t slip when your emotions do. It’s established in the finished work of Jesus Christ, and that makes the mature unshakable.

This doctrine, righteousness, isn’t just about being “right with God.” It’s about knowing who you are because you know Him who is from the beginning. And from that understanding flows everything else: wisdom, mercy, discernment, rest.

The mature wear righteousness like a crown. Quiet. Steadfast. Royal.
They don’t need to explain their authority—they carry it.

Knowing Him from the Beginning: Hidden Wisdom

You don’t get here by intellect. You don’t arrive by accomplishment or applause. You get here by knowing, not information, but intimacy. A long, weathered knowing. A heart that has walked with God through both silence and storm and come to recognize His voice even in the dark.

This is the wisdom Paul spoke of. Not the kind taught in classrooms or caught in clever phrases, but a hidden wisdom, spoken only among the mature. Look at Paul again,

“However, there is a wisdom that we continually speak of when we are among the spiritually mature. It’s wisdom that didn’t originate in this present age, nor did it come from the rulers of this age who are in the process of being dethroned. Instead, we continually speak of this wonderful wisdom that comes from God, hidden before now in a mystery. It is his secret plan, destined before the ages, to bring us into glory. None of the rulers of this present world order understood it, for if they had, they never would have crucified the Lord of shining glory. This is why the Scriptures say: Things never discovered or heard of before, things beyond our ability to imagine, these are the many things God has in store for all his lovers. .” (1 Corinthians 2:6–9 TPT)

John echoes it with reverent simplicity:

“I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning.”
(1 John 2:13)

You’ve stopped trying to define God in systems. You’ve stopped demanding that He fit within the lines. Now, you watch for Him in nuance, in small moments, in impossible timing, in deep peace where fear used to live.

You don’t just know doctrine, you know Him.
And what was once mysterious becomes familiar.
The hidden is no longer far-off, it’s whispered to you.

This kind of maturity doesn’t shout. It listens.
It doesn’t rush to reveal. It waits to discern.
It doesn’t seek spotlight. It carries His presence.

The mature don’t chase the next revelation; they’ve become a resting place for it.
They understand what Jesus meant when He said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom.” (Matthew 13:11)

And that knowing?
It isn’t theoretical. It’s generative – it produces life. It perfects God’s will.

Seated with Christ: Your Position, Not a Future Prize

Here you’re not waiting for heaven. You’re living from it.

One of the most radical truths of spiritual maturity is that your position in Christ is not delayed until death. It’s not merely an inheritance tucked away in the age to come. It’s a present reality, rooted in union with Jesus.

This is what Paul understood when he said, “And raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus…” (Ephesians 2:6)

To be seated with Christ is not metaphor. It’s governmental. It means you operate from a throne, not from a pit. You intercede not as a beggar pleading from below, but as a co-heir ruling from above.

The mature understand that Christ is not visiting their earthly lives, they are participants in His heavenly one. Their authority flows from that position, not from personality or performance.

They no longer strive to access God’s will.
They live there.
They no longer pray for victory.
They decree it.

This posture changes everything.
When seated, you see differently.
When seated, you speak differently.
When seated, you move without panic, because your faith is at rest.

To live from heaven is to live with eternal perspective:
You govern moments without being controlled by them.
You release peace into chaos.
You bring heaven to earth, and enforce God’s will.

The throne is not a reward it’s a privilege.

The Perfect Ones: Like the Wind

You won’t always spot them. They don’t draw attention to themselves. They don’t preach their maturity or advertise their revelations. But when you’re near them, you feel it, the heaviness of stillness, the scent of mercy, the strength of gentleness.

These are the perfect ones. The mature.
Like wind through trees, they move with purpose but without fanfare.

“The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes…” (John 3:8)

They are pillars, not platforms, supporting others without needing a spotlight. They carry burdens in prayer, pour oil on wounds, and strengthen the body in unseen ways. They’re steady. Steadfast. Saturated in mercy.

They don’t need applause. They don’t demand visibility. They’re not chasing influence, they’re cultivating fruit.

Their presence brings peace. Their tenderness speaks more than a thousand sermons.
Known or unknown, they know who they are, and that is enough.

They live in rhythm with the Spirit. They come when called, and they go when sent.
Like Jesus, they often slip away to be alone with the Father.

These are the ones you quietly lean on.
The ones who never needed to be seen, only to be true.

Ruling with Christ: Justice, Mercy, and Love

The mature don’t rule with clenched fists. They reign with open hands, marked by mercy, steadied by justice, shaped by love.

They know what it means to sit with Christ, not just in theory, but in practice. This throne isn’t made of stone or gold. It’s a throne of mercy. And those who sit upon it do so not to dominate but to serve with authority.

“Do you not know that the saints will judge the world?” (1 Corinthians 6:2)

Spiritual fathers and mothers judge rightly, not with a spirit of condemnation, but with the discernment of heaven. They carry the balance of justice and mercy, understanding that the highest justice is often mercy extended when none was deserved.

This isn’t sentimental. It’s surgical. Their love is precise. Their correction is tender but unwavering. They don’t wield authority to be right; they use it to restore.

They have learned the rhythm of heaven:
Mercy first. Love always. Truth without cruelty.

From this place of maturity, they reign in life, not over others, but on behalf of others. Their authority builds. It shelters. It heals. And in all of it, they reflect the heart of Christ, the King who knelt before He ascended.

These are the ones who understand that to reign with Christ is not about ruling above—but reigning with Him, in alignment with His nature. Justice without love becomes tyranny. Love without justice becomes sentiment. But the mature know how to hold both.

Nurturers of the Kingdom: Life-Givers in Every Realm

Spiritual maturity is never sterile. It always produces life.

The mature don’t just accumulate wisdom, they give it away. They don’t hoard revelation; they pour it into others. These are the nurturers of the kingdom, spiritual fathers and mothers whose lives have become fertile ground for growth in every direction.

They don’t compartmentalize the sacred. They infuse it into everything, marriage, parenting, business, worship, creativity. Whether leading a team, praying for the sick, or baking bread for a neighbour, their presence carries the wonder of heaven.

They are life-givers.
Not just in words, but in posture. In provision. In their ability to see the seed in someone and speak to its future.

Their lives become bridges between heaven and earth. They are unshaken by chaos, unmoved by flattery. They’ve weathered enough storms to know which winds matter, and which to ignore.

These are the ones who stand like pillars in God’s house. They carry others. They restore. They multiply. They understand that real maturity isn’t defined by spiritual gifts, but by the ability to sustain spiritual family.

They are mothers to the broken. Fathers to the overlooked. Providers of refuge, correction, and laughter.

And they do it all quietly, steadily, from a place of rest.

Spiritual maturity is the heart of God’s perfect will.

I praythat you would not only know Him,

but reflect Him.

That righteousness wouldn’t just clothe you,

it would crown you.

That wisdom would not puff you up,

but quiet you down.

In the light of God’s will and the grace that guides us,

❣️May your heart grow ever more attuned to the One who never takes His eyes off you.

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